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From: SteveYoungTbird <stephen.young@chello.at>
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On 12/23/2011 01:24 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article<6fcf59e5-0eef-49a4-a88d-ab6628ef1648@v24g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> SteveYoungGoogle<stephen.joung@googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> I have been using the newserver at news.chello.at for the last 10 or
>> so years and in November they "deactivated" it. As reading this group
>> on Google Groups is almost impossible due to the incredible amount of
>> spam I would be grateful if someone could recommend a decent newserver
>> in Austria or Germany.
>
> The internet shrinks the world so much that it doesn't really matter
> where they are. Having said that, the most popular free/inexpensive
> services do happen to be in Germany and Austria.
>
> There is an inexpensive pay-for service at http://news.individual.net/
> which is often recommended and is in Berlin.
>
> For free services, the two I use are Eternal September and Albasani:
> http://www.eternal-september.org/ - Bad Homburg, Germany.
> http://www.albasani.net/ - Neuhofen, Austria
>
> Cheers
> Tony

Thanks to all for your recommendations. I am now registered with Eternal 
September.

Happy Holidays,

Steve.